The losses comprised just a tiniest fraction of its total herd of 660 million--more than the next 43 largest producers combined--but even the slight shortfall led to soaring pork prices a year later.

虽然这造成的损失对于相当于43个产业总产值的整个养猪业66亿的产值来说只是很小的一部分，但是这微不足道的猪肉数量缺口，却在接下来的一年中引起了猪肉价格的猛涨。

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Although devaluation of the currency and inflation would generate losses for creditors, those losses are typically a fraction of losses that would arise from a default by government or - as Greece is trying to do - from a request to creditors to voluntarily forgo an element of what they're owed.

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Instead of pursuing the cases in court the FDIC has been settling with defendants for a fraction of the losses incurred, the Times finds.

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Securities class-action lawyers are frequently criticized for settling their cases for a small fraction of the losses, although Lerach and other firms have won multibillion-dollar settlements recently in cases such as WorldCom.

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